MY HERO: WILLIAM STEIG

The good ol’ “My Hero” essay. This reminds me of elementary school – it the best way. In case you missed it, Caldecott winner Jon Klassen wrote about his appreciation for William Steig over at The Guardian. Click here to read it.

HUMOR ME

Lane Smith is doing something different: putting out a novel (a novel that, as you can see above, doesn’t have a cover yet) about a kid who lives at “a cheesy roadside attraction” called Fairy Tale Place. From the description in this article at Publishers Weekly, I can’t wait to read it.

How do agents and editors view the current (and future) state of books for young people? Writing and Illustrating surveyed a batch to find out. Click the image below to read.

In my next life I’m going to create a YouTube channel called In the Picture Book Studio With… . In this imagined next life, I hope my videos will turn out like this one featuring Oliver Jeffers. Imagista interviews the author/illustrator about his work.

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

About 100 Scope Notes

Children's literature news, reviews and assorted school librarian oddities. Combine one part kid's books, one part school librarianship, a splash of absurdity and you get 100 Scope Notes.

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com. He's also on...